Harsh

Famous quotes containing the word harsh:

“Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.”
—William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

“The usual complaint is: I have no other way of earning a living. The harsh reply can be: Do you have to live?”
—Tertullian (c. 150–230)

“The good are so harsh to the clever,
The clever so rude to the good!”
—Elizabeth Wordsworth (1840–1932)